NY Times Plays Pretend With Trans Olympic Lifter: Shy History Maker?

Clay Waters
August 5th, 2021 1:30 PM

Laurel Hubbard, a biologically male weightlifter who represented New Zealand in the female weight lifting category at the Tokyo Olympics (depriving an actual female of a spot) was glorified on the front of the New York Times sports section: “No Medal, No Matter: Competing Was No. 1.” Although Hubbard came in last after failing to complete any of "his" three lift attempts and having to…

 

NYT's Super Bowl Whine: Not Enough Kaepernick, 'Systemic Oppression'

Clay Waters
February 4th, 2019 5:08 PM
New York Times' Ken Belson couldn’t confine himself to reporting on the Super Bowl itself, feeling obligated to tell readers how the spectacle failed by not embracing the social justice agenda of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick: "The presence of the civil rights leaders did not seem to win over supporters of the player, Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who in…
 

NYT Reporters Demand NFL Fight Injustice of ‘White Conservatives’

Clay Waters
September 27th, 2017 5:18 PM
The newly inflamed controversy over National Football League players protesting the National Anthem and American flag in the name of social justice landed New York Times’ sportswriter Juliet Macur on Tuesday’s front-page: “N.F.L. Players Knelt for Justice, But They Need a Lasting Stand.” Taking sides, Macur pushed for the protest to evolve, as evidenced by the story’s text box: “Shifting focus…
 

Hugo Chavez Loved Baseball and the South Bronx, NY Times Gushes

Clay Waters
March 8th, 2013 10:40 AM
While even the left-wing outlet ThinkProgress finds it necessary to discourage fellow Democrats from eulogizing Hugo Chavez, propaganda for the late dictator keeps popping up in strange places in the New York Times. Thursday brought a couple of oddly placed propaganda pieces for the late left-wing strongman of Venezuela. In Thursday's Metro story "In the Bronx, Memories Of Chavez And His Aid…